Enjoy a wonderful Rome in a day experience and choose how to manage your tours. Take these private tours, you won’t miss anything: this combination allows to see the Vatican City, the Colosseum and the remains of the ancient city, the enchanting views of numerous world famous buildings, renaissance and medieval artworks. Our tour guides will enrich your experience by telling the extravagant lives of romans, medieval legends and traditions that are still alive and celebrated by all of Rome. Each tour lasts 3 hours. Undergrounds are shared with other people, we don’t guarantee the availability and language, please check before book the tour.

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The Colosseum and the best of Rome (City Centre, Pantheon, Navona Square) Walk into the shoes of the famous gladiators, Commodus and Spartacus, and prominent leaders, Julius Caesar and Augustus, in this first 3 hour skip the line tour. Place yourself in the centre of a large arena with over 60,000 chanting spectators ready to watch you in all your glory – welcome to the Colosseum. This iconic symbol of Imperial Rome was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on classical mythology. Built nearly 2,000 years ago, the Colosseum is one of the must-sees in the city, and Once in Rome is determined to reveal the last remaining secrets of this monumental piece of architecture, one of the New 7 Wonders of the World. After reliving the accounts of a gladiator, walk among great rulers as you make your way to the Roman Forum. Julius Caesar, Augustus and Marc Anthony are only a taste of many famous people who stood at this ground. Visit the Senate House, the place where Julius Caesar’s ashes were buried, and where Marc Anthony held his renowned speech directed to “Friends, Romans, Countrymen”, calling out the assassins of Caesar. Next, you will walk along the Imperial Fora, a series of public squares constructed between 46 B.C. and 113 A.D, getting to Venice Square that still celebrates the Unification of Italy with its imposing national monument, the Vittoriano. In the same square you will recognize the famous balcony from which Mussolini spoke to his people before and during the Second World War. Continuing, you will discover that the current city was built on the ruins of the ancient one. With you local guide you will stop in Torre di Largo Argentina to meditate on the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated. From here move to Piazza della Rotonda where you will find in front of you one of the most beautiful and best preserved building from ancient times, the Pantheon. It’s story begins nearly 2000 years ago when Agrippa, faithful friend of Augustus had a temple which was dedicated to all gods in the heaven. In those days it looked very different. It was Hadrian who rebuilt the Pantheon as you see it now. Near by this huge structure there is one of the most famous Gelaterias and Café, so what better way to enjoy an ice cream or a lovely espresso! Finish the tour in Navona Square, one of the most elegant squares in the world, the symbol of the roman baroque. See what a strange, long, narrow shape it is. Well, the square traces the same lines of the ancient stadium built by the emperor Domitian. So the buildings you can admire along its sides have their foundations on top of the spectators’ steps around the stadium and the surface of the square itself on top of the arena where romans held the athletics games. The Vatican Museums with Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica A visit to a museum is also an adventure and a game. This is a special tour with curiosities, legends and games. You will discover many things while having fun, such as that when you enter the Vatican Museums, you’re entering the Vatican City State. It’s the smallest but probably the most famous city state in the world. In centuries gone by, the popes governed a state which was spread over a much wider area, but it ceased to exist in 1870 when italian troops entered Rome. Like all independent states the Vatican City has its own coins, stamps, radio station, but it also has its own laws, together with police force and law court to enforce them. The Head of the state is the Pope, at the moment Francesco I, who is chosen from among cardinals the world over. The personal guards of the Pope are the famous Swiss Guards, you will see them in front of the main entrances of the Vatican. The private collection of the pope is packed of artworks: ancient statues from Egypt, Greece and Rome, sarcophaguses, busts, frescoes and tapestries, but also painting made in any period of the history. Thanks to his collection historians could write the history of humanity. You mustn’t miss the Sistine Chapel which was frescoed by Michelangelo. Follow your tour guide into St Peter’s basilica. This church is rich in works of art and monuments. Here are some of them that you can’t miss: the Canopy by Bernini, the bronze statue of St. Peter, the Pietà by Michelangelo. Leave the church and look at the center where there is the obelisk brought from Egypt. At the end turn around St Peter Square to enjoy the magnificent colonnade by Bernini, it seems almost to wrap you in an embrace.

Rome in a day Private Tour can also include Limo, please check the Options in the tour booker calculator.

Private Vatican and Colosseum tour

Ancient City Tour

Hearing stories about the ancient Roman Colosseum is something we have all experienced during childhood. So when we visit this place with you, we don’t just want to visit, we want it to be special and filled with emotion. We want every first timer to feel what is was like to visit the Rome of Old with thousands shouting and gladiators everywhere. The Roman Forum part of the tour lets you share your footprints with the great emperors like Caesar, Augustus and Hadrian. We really want all the childhood stories to come alive. To finish it all off we take you to the apex of the Palatine Hill and show you what being an Emperor back in the day actually felt like.

Vatican City Tour

The Vatican holds many historical and beautiful places within its walls. Most of them are covered during this tour. You are a guest to the city and shall be treated like the kings and queens you have always been. We help you skip the line and enter prior to the crowd waiting outside. The Vatican Museums, Belvedere Courtyard, Raphael’s Rooms, Gallery of Candelabra and of the Maps, etc. will all be touched upon from the get go. The icing on the cake comes in the form of the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica where we help you to skip the line again. The tour can also be done on an exotic limousine which costs 100 euro for up to 3 people and 150 for up to 6. Time: After booking a tour you will receive a note with detailed information about the best suited times of each tour.

Baroque & Ancient City Center tour

take a walk with our guide in heart of the modern city! there you will discover the magnificent of Rome!

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We, at Once in Rome want you to feel that you’re traveling like an insider. That is why we named our company Once in Rome. As avid travelers, we love to be treated to the special sites and experiences only insiders get. We have given thousands of tours over the last five years and that has given us the knowledge of what to offer the discerning traveller.

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Jaden family – August 10, 2016:

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Jaden family – August 10, 2016:

Fantastic day!! thank you Nora!!

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David S – January 11, 2015:

Your guides were the best of our vacation in the Eternal City. Thanks Once in Rome!!